explore
Other forms: exploring; explored; explores
Explore is a verb that means "to travel in or through." You might explore an island, a European city, or the rooms of an unfamiliar house.
The Latin root of explore is explorare, meaning "investigate or search out." When you explore a new place, you want to see interesting things and get to know its people. Whenever you delve into something, or investigate it, you explore it. You can even explore an interest, like when you explore African art, or explore an idea or tendency in order to understand it — you can explore your fear of snakes to try to get over it.
Definitions of explore
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travel to or penetrate into
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inquire into“Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness”
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prospect
explore for useful or valuable things or substances, such as minerals
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google
search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine
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mapquest
search for a location and directions by means of the MapQuest program
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re-explore
explore anew
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beat about, cast about, cast around
search anxiously
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investigate, look into
investigate scientifically
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examine minutely
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examine (organs) for diagnostic purposes
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put out feelers
make some preliminary investigations or test the waters
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diagnose
subject to a medical analysis
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put out feelers
Pronunciation
US
/ɛkˈsplɔr/
UK
/ɛkˈsplɔ/
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